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Hyperconnect

Consumer · Seoul, KR

Social-discovery video tech (Azar, HAKUNA Live)

Founders

Ahn Sang-il (South Korea · ♂) — President of Seoul National University's startup club, Ahn co-founded Hyperconnect in 2014 and built Azar, the first mobile WebRTC video-chat app, later sold to Match Group for $1.7bn.
Jung Kang-sik (South Korea · ♂) — A computer-engineering peer from Seoul National University's student ventures club, Jung co-founded Hyperconnect in 2014 as CTO, building its real-time WebRTC video technology.
Yong Hyun-taek (South Korea · ♂) — A POSTECH computer-engineering graduate, Yong co-founded Hyperconnect in 2014 as CSO, helping scale the Azar video-chat app globally.

Date	Round	Amount
Feb 2021	Acquired by Match Group Match Group agreed to acquire Hyperconnect, the Korean social-discovery video company (Azar, HAKUNA Live), for $1.73B in cash and stock.	$1.7B

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